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H is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet (Alphabet Books)
by Brad Herzog (Illustrator: Melanie Rose)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press (2004-03-19)
ISBN: 1585362190
EAN: 9781585362196
Dewey Decimal #: 796.357
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 40 pages
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
SKU: 05373
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Minor wear except name inside front cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Now anyone can be one of the 'boys or girls of summer' and get a home plate view of America's favorite pastime in H is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet . This new offering in our line of children's alphabet books brings the game of baseball to entertaining and informative life. Sports writer Brad Herzog pairs easy-to-read rhymes with detailed expository so that readers are pitched baseball's facts, faces, history, and places from A-Z.
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Customer Reviews
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Great book for baseball lovers
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-07-27
I bought this book about a year ago for my son's fourth birthday. He absolutely loves baseball and loves this book. We still read this book from time to time and he loves the pitctures and little stories of Base Ruth, Lou Gherig and others.
We've bought a few baseball books for my son over the last year and this is his favorite.
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Love it!
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-01-12
This book is so cute, great for learning the alphabet and relating it to sports. My son is a sports fanatic and loves the pictures (beautiful illustrations!).
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An Awesome Book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-09-16
This is an excellent book, and it is more educational than I thought it would be.
On each page, is a different letter of the alphabet (from A to Z), and it goes with a baseball related word and they put it into a nice little rhyme of a few lines. On the side of the page, there is a great paragraph detailing the subject, and other topics related.
So, you basically have two choices to get through the book. On nights we are tired and just want a short story, I just go through with the simple rhymes and letters. On other nights, or during the day, it's fun to get more of an education and read the details on the side. Even the parents can learn things from this book!
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A sure hit!
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-09-10
This book has been a wonderful way to hook our young son (who only wanted to play baseball)on learning the alphabet in a way that interests him. I can't begin to count how many times we have read this book and the alliteration and rhyme, along with the beautiful, unique illustrations, keep us all interested time and time again. We enjoy reading it in a variety of ways...just the letter, picture and saying the sound or in greater depth by reading the details in the margins stating facts about baseball that we never knew. We'd recommend this book for any young child who's interested in baseball more than learning to read...hopefully it can help your child develop a new love and swing their interests in a new direction. We're looking forward to getting the other sport books in his series.
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Great book for children young and old
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-06-21
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I've become something of a collector of children's baseball books since my son was born four years ago. I really shouldn't be, and books like "H is for Home Run," are the reasons why.
This book does a nice job of explaining some of the fundamentals of the game to children of all ages. It does a much better job than the DK baseball books that have pictures licensed by MLB that deliver facts and pictures, but not interesting stories.
To me, one of the best parts of the book is the structure. Each letter of the alphabet is given one page that includes an interesting illustration and one short, typically four line poem: "B is for the best--Babe Ruth, the New York Yankee great who batted balls toward bleachers at a then-unheard-of rate." These little ditties roll off your tongue smoothly--perfect for my two-year-old daughter and four-year-old son. They even finish some of the sentences for me.
Each page also includes two to three meaty paragraphs with a bit more substance more suitable for older kids and grown ups. Continuing with the letter "B," the authors share some of the Babe's jaw-dropping stats in the first paragraph, then serve up more detailed info about balls, bats and bases in the second paragraph, "Major leaguers generally prefer bats measuring 33 to 35 inches long. The longest bats allowed are 42 inches in the major leagues and 33 inches in Little League."
The structure actually creates two books in one. A baseball poetry book fit to be read while putting a toddler to bed. And a baseball history book interesting enough for the grownup to read after their child has nodded off to sleep.
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